Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The 12 red cannons fired once again. Dozens of pounds of red-hot round bullets fired at the charging Green Army soldiers again and again. In an instant, blood and flesh flew everywhere, and wails could be heard.
However, these tragic scenes did not affect the Green Army soldiers who were charging crazily. Their eyes were bloodshot as they stared at the city wall. In their hearts, they were thinking of snatching the most beautiful woman after breaking through the city to reward themselves. As for whether they would survive, they subconsciously ignored it.
Just like the previous few times, the sounds of cannons, gunshots, shouts, and wails rang out continuously. After losing hundreds of soldiers, the Green Army soldiers once again charged through the death zone covered by artillery, approaching the city wall and climbing the ladder.
Di Qing did not pay much attention to these Green Army soldiers climbing up because he knew that these people alone could not take down the city wall. His attention was always on the elite troops behind him.
Seeing those master archers slowly advancing under the cover of the heavy shields and shield chariots, Di Qing could not help but look at the commander who commanded the siege this time in a new light. He said to the messenger beside him: "Order the small cannons to ignore the Green Army soldiers and fire at the heavy shield soldiers. Order the crossbowmen to find an opportunity to kill the archers as soon as they show their heads.”
"Yes."
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The cannon fire sounded out once again, and it was extremely dense. From the sound of it, there were dozens of cannons. Moreover, the target of this attack was not elsewhere, but the heavy shield soldiers who were covering the Sharpshooters.
Although the accuracy of these cannons was not high, the shields of the heavy shield soldiers moved slowly and the target was large. In the eyes of the artillery, they were completely live targets. Moreover, if they focused their attacks, they would basically not miss.
As expected, after a concentrated bombardment, the shields of the heavy-armored soldiers covering the Sharpshooters were completely destroyed. The power of the shells did not decrease even after the shields were destroyed, and many of the heavily armored soldiers behind them were also killed.
However, after being blocked by these meat shields, the cannonballs were no longer effective against the Sharpshooters behind them who were also wearing heavy armor. Basically, they could only draw their bows and shoot arrows after being lightly injured.
This time, they didn't even have the chance to shoot their arrows. After their shields were broken, the burly crossbowmen who had already aimed at these master archers immediately shot out their deadly arrows.
These arrows didn't shoot at their armor, but at their eyes, throats, and other vital parts. In less than ten seconds, the six hundred master archers were almost killed by the crossbowmen on the city wall before they could shoot. The remaining part of the archers were able to enter the shooting range of the arrows because they were hiding behind the shield chariots and weren't destroyed by the cannons.
Once they entered the shooting range, these sharpshooters who had been holding back for a long time finally showed their fangs and began to shoot at the Ming army on the city gate tower.
Their archery skills were fast, accurate, and ruthless. Every arrow they shot did not miss, and every arrow hit a person's vital spot.
It could be said that the remaining two hundred sharpshooters had used their archery skills to suppress the Ming soldiers on the city wall. They were afraid that they would be shot if they showed their heads. After all, their archery skills were too accurate. Every time their comrades were shot in the throat or other vital areas and fell into a pool of blood, many people gasped and their eyes revealed fear.
" Brothers, the thief has been suppressed. Hurry up and charge…"
The three thousand elite soldiers following at the back saw that their sharpshooters had made the Ming soldiers on the city gate tower so afraid that they did not dare to show their heads. They were all extremely excited and immediately quickened their pace to approach the city wall.
The commander of the Bordered Blue Flag Army, You Yunlong, saw that so many of the sharpshooters he had sent out had died in an instant. His face was ashen with anger, but when he saw that the remaining sharpshooters had suppressed the city gate tower, he quickly smiled. In his opinion, as long as his lord's soldiers climbed up, the new guild would be conquered.
After taking down Xinhui, I will definitely capture this general who defended the city and execute him by a thousand cuts. He actually caused me to lose so many men.
You Yun Long had already sentenced Di Qing to death in his heart.
While Yun Long was thinking about how to deal with Di Qing after breaking through the city, Di Qing, who was on the city tower, was still looking at the elite Eight Banner Soldiers with an indifferent expression. He did not care at all that he was being suppressed by those sharpshooters. Or rather, he was deliberately being suppressed by the remaining archers.
"It's almost done." Seeing Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao's elites rushing up, Di Qing muttered to himself and said to the messenger: "Order the crossbowmen to counterattack and kill all those arrogant archers.”
"Yes."
The messenger didn't dare to delay and immediately passed down the order. Soon, the archers of the Great Han Dynasty counterattacked the archers below the city tower.
These sharpshooters became complacent after suppressing the Ming army, thinking that the crossbowmen above them were just so-so. They gradually left the cover in their complacency. The archers who had been hiding in the battlements and observing them for a long time only lived for a while because Di Qing had ordered them not to kill them for the time being. Now that they had received the order, they were so complacent that they did not pay attention to protecting themselves. Immediately, they became live targets and became the military exploits of the crossbowmen.
Although they had been suppressed by the archers and killed many people, those who had died were all surrendered Green Army soldiers. None of the archers of the Great Han Dynasty had died because they had much more combat experience than these Green Army soldiers. In the past, they had never been afraid of the Xiongnu's " Condor Shooters ", let alone now that they had the geographical advantage. Unless they were unlucky, they would not be shot.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh...
A thousand arrows were fired at the sharpshooters below. The sharpshooters, who thought they had won, began to wail and fall to the ground, turning into corpses.
Without the suppression of these sharpshooters, the Ming army could immediately raise their heads and fire again. Soon, the originally silent artillery fire was concentrated again, blasting the elites of the Eight Banners of Han who had already entered the firing range.
These elites of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty had thought that the Ming army on the city gate tower had been suppressed, and even if there were archers and bird commanders shooting, they would be scattered and not in a large scale. Therefore, they were very relieved to charge forward. However, the sudden concentrated fire of the artillery instantly stunned them.
In just a few breaths, nearly a thousand people had died just like that. Moreover, they had died in an abnormally aggrieved manner.
"Shotguns? It's a shotgun!"
When the surviving soldiers saw the densely packed iron balls on their fallen comrades 'faces and bodies, they understood what the Ming army had fired. They couldn't help but exclaim, then immediately scattered and ran.
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